Sherlock Building (Portland, Oregon)
- Title
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Sherlock Building (Portland, Oregon)
- LC Subject
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Architecture, American
Architecture--United States
- Alternative
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Forbes & Breeden Building (Portland, Oregon)
- Photographer
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Ross, Marion Dean
- Description
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National Register (Listed, 1981)
- View
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exterior
- Provenance
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Design Library, University of Oregon Libraries
- Temporal
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1880-1889
- Work Type
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architecture (object genre)
built works
views (visual works)
exterior views
facilities, commercial
mercantiles (buildings)
storage facilities
warehouses
office buildings
- Latitude
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45.522275
- Longitude
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-122.672375
- Location
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Portland >> Multnomah County >> Oregon >> United States
Multnomah County >> Oregon >> United States
Oregon >> United States
United States
- Street Address
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59 Southwest 2nd Avenue
- Date
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1894
- View Date
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1967-10-15
- Identifier
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pna_07376
- Item Locator
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mdr08376
- Rights
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In Copyright
- Rights Holder
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University of Oregon
- Source
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Gift of Wallace K. Huntington from the estate of Marion Dean Ross
- Type
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Image
- Format
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image/tiff
- Set
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Building Oregon
- Primary Set
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Building Oregon
- Institution
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University of Oregon
- Citation
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National Register of Historic Places, http://www.nps.gov/nr/
- Note
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The architect of the Sherlock Building is not known. Isaac Hodgson, Jr., and F. Manson White, respectively, have been attributed without sourcing. The author of the National Register nomination provides this speculation: "The name of the "anonymous" architect of the Sherlock Building has for many years been an enigma to local architects and historians. Since none of the work of contemporary local architects resembles the Sherlock design, and none of the local publications or periodicals yet discovered names the Sherlock Building architect, nor is the Sherlock noted in the published or un- published lists of local architect's work, it seems fair to assume that the designer of the Sherlock Building was not from Portland. A likely candidate is architect Isaac Hodgson, Jr. of Omaha, Nebraska. Hodgson came to Portland in 1890 to work on the design of the Chamber of Commerce Building. The eight story Chamber of Commerce Building, completed in September, 1893, (razed 1933) occupied the half block on S. W. Stark Street between 3rd and 4th, adjoining the Sherlock Building. Promoter of the Chamber of Commerce Building was George B. Markle, Jr., President of the Northwest Loan & Trust Co., who developed the Forbes & Breeden, nee Sherlock Building. Hodgson's tenure in Port- land coincided with construction of the C. of C. Building and Markle's departure from Portland in 1894 after his financial ruin in the 1893 Panic."